Charles Petzold Quotes
I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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Anytime I get to help the firefighters, I will. I'm real lucky to be in a position to help.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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When I was young, I wanted to be the greatest blues singer of all time. I wrecked my education and left home for it.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.
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I was always interested in film, but I never knew how to go about becoming a filmmaker.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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I'm very obsessed with not being perfect.
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Shame doesn't exist as an emotion without the projected or perceived sense of judgment coming from somewhere else.
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There are things and there are faces which, when felt or seen for the first time, stamp themselves upon the mind like a sun image on a sensitized plate and there remain unalterably fixed.
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I just like to take my time, have a cup of tea and read the paper. I don't like starting the day in a panic.
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The doctrine of marriage depends on Genesis being true. If there's an absolute authority, and if God's the Creator, He made one man and one woman. Jesus came and said that marriage is between a man and woman. If Genesis is not true, we're just animals, and marriage is just whatever you want to make it to be.
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I felt more like a scientist exploring nature, and Windows was my environment. You don't pass judgment on nature; you just explain how it works.
